Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story of a 12-year-old girl, they caught him one dawn last week in a Memphis bungalow...
Fortunately the address was supplied by Kelly himself. From Fort Worth he had sent a coded telegram to one John R. Tichenor at No. 1408 Raynor St.. Memphis. The message was intercepted. Federal agents swooped into Memphis by airline from St. Louis. Birmingham and Chicago. At the address given, Kelly was caught...
...seem afraid to swap punches with Tammany. When bumbling John Patrick O'Brien was propped up in the special Mayoral election last November by Tammany, many a citizen was puzzled at Mr. McKee's unwillingness to run against him. Spurred chiefly by the militant World-Telegram, 262,000 voters wrote McKee's name on their ballots literately; the votes of 73,000 more were not counted because of misspelling...
...nearly two weeks." said his announcement, "by letter and by telegram, by resolution and personal appeal, I have been asked to be a candidate for Mayor. . . . One and all protested against a leadership that has shattered the city's credit and made the people of this city bow their heads - an arrogant leadership of stupidity and corruption, unmatched since the days of Boss Tweed. . . . There is no real Fusion in this campaign. The so-called Fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of our Republican citizenry as he is to the vast army of Democrats...
...Herald Tribune. "A Joseph Yea-and-Nay," snapped the Times. "He has not acted as if he were his own man; scarcely as if he knew his own mind. . . . The fact remains that the best hope of a successful attack upon Tammany lies in the Fusion ticket." The World-Telegram turned furiously on its former champion: "'A plague on ALL bosses!' becomes more than ever the slogan since the McKee decision...